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Sunday, 2 August 2009

We are getting closer...! The entry list is below. If your name is on there but you will not be able to take part please e-mail me immediately as we have a big reserve list who'll be really grumpy if you just don't turn up on the day. If you've already sent me an e-mail and I haven't responded, apologies a few things may have slipped through the net when I moved across to a Mac.

More Welsh Open information is below the entry list. And... just to get the juices flowing, there's a slides show below of some Welsh Open images from across the years.

Sponsors Kin from Smartmodel and Ian Mason of Sloperacer.co.uk are putting together a package of moulded model with all the servos!Please e-mail if you want your products to be part of the fastest F3F event on the planet.

Pilot

Country

Team

F1

F1

1

Alvaro Silgado

Spain

-

Synth

Synth

2

Andrzej Tabero

Wales

-

-

-

3

Andy Burgoyne

England

Unflapables

69

74

4

Andy West

Wales

-

62

70

5

Angel Lopez Cabrera

Spain

-

78

64

6

C M Cheng

Hong Kong

-

60

-

7

Cedric Grandseigne

France

-

Synth

Synth

8

Dag Skoglund

Norway

-

75

76

9

Dave Watson

Scotland

Tayside Tossers

77

66

10

David Cederwall

-

-

82

77

11

Espen Torp

Norway

-

65

72

12

Frank Hulton

England

GBR

80

59

13

Gary Harrison

England

Southern_Numpties

80

74

14

Gerardo Plaza

Spain

-

Synth

Synth

15

Graham Reed

England

Team Muppet

Glitch

Glitch

16

Greg Dakin

England

Swillers

77

80

17

Iain Rose

England

-

61

78

18

Ian Mason

England

GBR

82

19

Ian Stewart

Scotland

Tayside Tossers

62

76

20

Iñaki Elizondo

Spain

-

Synth

Synth

21

Jack Björnberg

Norway

-

63

78

22

Jean-Luc Foucher

France

-

72

77

23

Jesus Herrera Borrego

Spain

-

68

80

24

Joel West

England

SMOG

64

74

25

John Phillips

England

Swillers

62

70

26

Jon Edison

England

-

75

63

27

Jonathon Sage

England

SMOG

90

82

28

Jose Carrion

Spain

-

68

78

29

José Luis Alvarez Fernandez

Spain

-

69

80

30

Julian Perrott

England

Southern_Numpties

77

78

31

Keith Wood

England

-

82

57

32

Kevin Newton

England

-

77

68

33

Lage Salomonsen

-

-

Glitch

Glitch

34

Mark Abbotts

England

GBR

84

68

35

Mark Passingham

England

Swillers

69

70

36

Mark Redsell

England

Tean RAG

81

85

37

Mark Southall

England

-

71

84

38

Mick Walsh

England

-

Synth

Synth

39

Mike Evans

England

Team RAG

80

87

40

Mike Shellim

England

-

72

64

41

Mike Young

Wales

-

85

58

42

Paul Garnett

England

Team RAG

Synth

Synth

43

Paul Middleton

England

-

58

69

44

Peter Gunning

Scotland

Tayside Tossers

85

80

45

Pierre Rondel

France

-

77

67

46

Warrick Smith

------

-

60

Synth

47

Ron Russell

Scotland

-

72

76

48

Simon Thornton

England

SMOG

Glitch

Glitch

49

Stefan Bertschi

Switzerland

-

Glitch

Glitch

50

Steve Clutterbuck

England

Unflapables

58

56

51

Tom Macpherson

England

Team Muppet

84

68

52

Tony Robertson

England

-

Glitch

--

53

Vic Eldridge

England

Team Muppet

70

76

54

Dave Rumble

England

Unflapables

88

70

55

Bjorn Tore Hagen

Norway

-

Glitch

-

TeamsAs well as the top three individual trophies there will be a trophy for each member of the winning three man team. You do not have to fly as a team, but if you want to, either include your team details when you enter or get them to me by 1 September.

Entry feeWe need to cover the expenses of land usage, trophies, Eurotour fees and so on. The entry will be £25. You won't need to pay before the event.The event Each day you must be at the Bwlch T junction of the A4107 and A4061 (map here http://www.knewt.com/bwlch/thebwlch.htm ) by 9.00 in time for a 9:45 start. Each day the last round in progress will be that running at 17:30. If the conditions are light and a round started before 17:30 is unlikely to be completely finished that day the Competition Director will consider using group scoring so that we don't lose several hours of competition time. Group scoring will be a last resort, and will not be used if at all possible.BanquetThis is a lot of hassle for a very small club to organise but we have friends... Vic has done a whole bunch of work and arranged this.

Additional information Bases will be set back as far as possible, this will allow the safety line to go back a little also. The turn points will be marked in the normal forward position by an additional marker.

Three models per competitor are allowable.

We are currently considering rotation of the flying order - more information soon.

There will be 30 seconds ready time.

Turn judges will be very strongly instructed to acknowledge any errors and the pilot will refly immediately. We all know that some apparently late buzzes are just great flying, others are turn judge error and it is this that we want to acknowledge and eradicate in a supportive way for the turn judge. This worked very well last year and we are keen to build on that success.You will be called upon to help with buzzing as our experience has been that pilots make the best turn judges.